Nochum
Nochum was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,384 among boys’ names; 292 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nochum by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nochum?
#10,384 among boys’ names, 2025
Nochum fell from #6,213 in 2015 to #10,384 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.3 to 4.1 per million.
21 babies in 2021, the peak
Nochum peaked in 2021, when 21 boys were given it, #4,727 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,384 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 15 | #6,098 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 10 | #8,086 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,727 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,727 | 12.0 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,530 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,676 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,996 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,973 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,712 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #6,213 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 17 | #5,414 | 8.9 |
| 2013 | 15 | #5,838 | 7.9 |
| 2012 | 19 | #4,986 | 10.0 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,877 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,781 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,619 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,658 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,936 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,340 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,791 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,697 | 4.0 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,955 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,733 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,193 | 2.5 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,851 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #7,000 | 3.1 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,286 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nochum a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nochum has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nochum: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nochum, and how old are they?
An estimated 288 Americans named Nochum and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 267 people named Nochum (6 women and girls, 261 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 214 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Nochum born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 7 | #883 | 13.0× |
Where Nochum is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nochum is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1985 it was given 13.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nochum with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nochum
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
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